Collector selling tons of old-school Apple memorabilia

One collector is unloading his collection of Apple goodies, which includes a …

People who collect Apple memorabilia tend to guard their treasures fairly closely, so you don't see a ton of old-school Apple collectibles for sale very often. If you've been looking to get your hands on an old poster, piece of marketing literature, or old Mac, however, now may be your chance. A fellow by the name of Blair Saldanah is putting his somewhat extensive Mac memorabilia collection up for sale in order to gather up some additional money.

Although Saldanah's collection doesn't include any Swedish paintings, there's plenty of cool stuff to be had. There are a number of product launch posters for things like the original iMac, the Power Mac G4 Cube, and Jaguar, and there are tons of old manuals and disks (both CDs and floppies) available as well, so now may be the time to grab that System 7.5 Upgrade Guide you're always had your eye on. Saldanah also has a wide collection of product brochures, and t-shirts from no less than 10 Apple Store openings, as well as one from the iPod 3G launch.

You can get a "Box o' Newtons" for $100, as well as an Apple Pro Mouse that was a gift from Steve Jobs at the 2000 Macworld New York keynote for $500. Three "early PowerBooks," three PowerBook Duos, and even a Macintosh Portable are due to be listed soon, and I would imagine that the Macintosh Portable in particular will sell pretty fast. There are plenty of other items available too, like Mac OS 8 temporary tattoos, rainbow logo stickers, and even a set of the first four issues of Macworld magazine so it's definitely worth browsing through the items available if you're an Apple history buff.

9 Reader Comments

Wow. I have most of this stuff. The posters, tattoos, sealed brick-packaged t-shirts and stickers. I've got a Mac Portable, PowerBook 100 and an original 128K. Apple travel alarm clock, dozens of pens, keychains and a leather Apple mouse pad. Best of all though, I've got a handful of OS 8 Copland demo CDs still sealed in the shrinkwrap.

I just never thought it would be worth selling. Not for a few years anyway. I'm going to have to keep an eye on this and maybe have a sale of my own. I could use the extra cash.

Well, gang, as it says on the portal page, there is room for negotiation on the prices. I used what I found on other online stores as a baseline, and priced based on rarity and scarcity. If you want something, make me an offer! It's for a good cause, if my wife wasn't sick I wouldn't even be doing this. Thanks for your kind thoughts and encouragement everyone!

Wow, I think this is really cool. He's got a lot of great stuff! I'm a collector too and though the prices seem high they are the same as I've seen on the web the last couple of years. Everything is open to offers which is great, a lot of memorabilia sites don't offer that!

I don't think the economy factor will be a problem. There are plenty of collectors that still have money. Many of the people I know who are into collecting are quite wealthy. If you see something you like - especially the posters which are getting scarce - you should snap one up soon. I know I'm going to!!!